[launchd-dev] Having issue with launchAgents

Arjun SM arjun.sm at gmail.com
Thu Jan 22 02:55:58 PST 2009


Thanks a heap for your reply and  my apologies  i didn't mentioned the
version. I am running on 10.5.5
I will take your advice and reply back with my findings.

~Arjun

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Quinn <eskimo1 at apple.com> wrote:

> At 12:13 +0530 22/1/09, Arjun SM wrote:
>
>>  I have created a custom Menulet  which i have made it as a launchAgent .
>> The problem i am facing is after installation if i logout and login again my
>> Menulet doesn't come up at all.
>>
>
> You're running on 10.5.x, right?  The symptoms you describe almost make it
> sound like you're testing on 10.4.x (launchd agents don't work in a useful
> way prior to 10.5).
>
> Beyond that, I suggest you start with something simple.  I installed the
> following plist on my 10.5.6 machine and it worked just fine. So, start from
> that, and mutate it towards what you've got, and see what causes it to stop
> working.
>
> $ cat /Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.textedit.plist
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "
> http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
> <plist version="1.0">
> <dict>
>        <key>Label</key>
>        <string>com.apple.textedit</string>
>        <key>Program</key>
>        <string>/Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit</string>
>        <key>RunAtLoad</key>
>        <true/>
> </dict>
> </plist>
>
> S+E
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